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Progressive Socialist Party leader Walid Joumblatt has criticized the president in comments to a media outlet of Premier-designate Saad Hariri’s Future Movement, calling Michel Aoun a “destructive ruler” who wants to “commit [political] suicide”

14 February 2021

Lebanon has registered 2,130 new COVID-19 cases in the past 24 hours. Thirty-two more people have died, bringing the total death toll to 3,993

14 February 2021

A ‘glimpse of hope’ as Lebanon kicks off COVID-19 vaccinations

BEIRUT — Lebanon kicked off COVID-19 vaccinations Sunday with jabs for health care workers and the elderly in an inoculation drive it hopes will keep the outbreak in check amid a deepening...

14 February 2021

President Michel Aoun’s press office has accused Saad Hariri of exploiting the commemoration of his father’s 2005 assassination in his address today, saying the premier-designate’s comments were inaccurate. Hariri blamed Aoun for blocking cabinet formation with his demands

14 February 2021

Primesouth, whose contract to run the Deir Ammar and Zahrani power plants expires Monday, told Le Commerce du Levant it will continue to operate the facilities as per a request from the caretaker premier, who met yesterday on the issue with BDL Gov. Salameh and relevant officials

14 February 2021

Hariri reiterated that his proposed cabinet lineup of 18 ministers does not allow for a “blocking third” of ministers, saying that President Michel Aoun has tried to circumvent this by insisting a minister from the Tashnag party — allied to the FPM — not come from his share

14 February 2021

Premier-designate Saad Hariri in a speech commemorating the 16th anniversary of the assassination of his father Rafik Hariri vows that Salim Ayyash, who was convicted by the Special Tribunal for Lebanon for the murder, will be handed over to justice “no matter how long it takes”

14 February 2021

The World Bank says in a statement that it “insists on adopting the highest standards of transparency in managing” Lebanon’s vaccination program, adding that “there will be no wasta,” a reference to the clientelistic connections in the country

14 February 2021

Caretaker Premier Hassan Diab told the press at Rafik Hariri University Hospital that he will not receive a COVID-19 vaccine today, adding that the inoculation program’s priority is front-line medical staff

14 February 2021

Lebanon has kicked off its COVID-19 vaccination campaign at Rafik Hariri University Hospital in Beirut, with the head of the facility’s intensive care unit, Mahmoud Hassoun, the first to receive an inoculation

14 February 2021